From the Queen of England to the queen of your 'hood, from aspiring
filmmakers to Hollywood studios, from high school graduation videos to
citizen reports of revolutionary moments in Iran, it all has a home on
YouTube. This creates a really big challenge: how do we design a site
that reflects so many different users, experiences and videos? This is
a question we've thought about a lot since we launched in 2005. The
result of some of this thinking (some might say over-thinking) is a
video page chock-full of features that reflect a lot of different
things to a lot of different people, but can feel cluttered and a
little overwhelming. We've spent a lot of time over the last 10 months
asking ourselves some tough questions about this page and posing some
of those questions to you in blog posts, roundtable discussions,
one-on-one conversations with the community and even on forums like our
Product Ideas for YouTube page.

Today, we're excited to unveil the first major example of our efforts
to simplify and streamline the video page to offer the best possible
watching experience to you. To check out this new look all you have to
do is opt-in. Click on this link
to try it out (anyone can opt-in, but for now page elements are only in
English). To revert back to the old video page, use the opt-out link at
the top of the new video page or opt out here.
We'll be making the opt-in more easily accessible soon, but we wanted
to give our most passionate users a chance to experiment with it early.

Below are some highlights of some of the things that have changed and why. You can also check out our "Getting Started Guide" in the Help Center.

Streamlined look and functionality -- the video is the star:
This concept is at the heart of the redesign. YouTube is about creating
and watching the world's biggest video collection; therefore, the
design should make the video the star. To that end, the new look is
more subdued, stripped down and simple than before. The design should
help ease users into advanced features, while providing power users
with all the functionality they want.

New "next up" video list: We'll be smarter about queuing up
other videos for you to watch on the right side of the page that will
take into consideration how you found a video. For example, if you
arrived at a video through Search, the rest of the search results will
follow you to the playback page so your can continue to browse search
results on the video page. The same goes for playlists and
recommendations; if that's how you found a video, then that's what will
show up on the right side of the page. Again, this is about creating a
consistent viewing experience -- and a relevant one when we include
context about your viewing intentions.

Description and stats areas united: More specific information
about the video you're watching is now in one place on the page:
underneath the video. Click on the "Description" snippet or the Views
to see more. This new expand capability works on multiple elements of
the page so you won't have to learn a new trick to view each piece of
data. The result: less clutter, especially on the right side where you
look for the next video to watch.

Cleaned up actions bar: Actions like sharing, rating, saving or
flagging a video are now all grouped in one place, with a cleaner,
simpler "button bar." We thought a lot about practicality here,
choosing to expose only the most commonly used actions and language for
you. And, "Playlists" can now be built via the "Save to" pulldown menu.

Simplified binary ratings: As we noted in an earlier blog post,
the rating system on YouTube doesn't really work that well (e.g. only
the 1 and 5 star ratings were ever really used). So we moved towards a
simpler "Like / Don't Like" model. Liking a video will also save it to
your Favorites to make it easy to find those videos again.

New player sizing and video quality controls: We're adding a new
size control into the player that allows you to pick a larger size to
watch your video (formally above the player). When you pick the size,
we'll serve you the ideal quality. For those of you hungry for more
control, you can pick the specific video quality (for example, SD, HD
or 1080p) in an associated drop-down menu. We'll warn you when we think
there may be a better quality choice, but the control is in your hands.

Search results within the page: Now you can now search while
you're watching a video and results will appear on the right side of
the video page, without interrupting the viewing experience.

More prominent channel/subscriber placement and a new "see more videos" feature:
Subscriptions are important to many of you, so we've made it more
noticeable by moving the "Subscribe" button to the top of the video
right near the title. This also gives anyone the ability to quickly
peek at more videos from the creator's channel. (Just click on the
arrow next to the number of uploads on the person's channel to see more
videos from that user.) You've told us that making you hunt for this
information on the page is confusing and many of you wanted this data
in one place. This should make it easier to discover more content from
videographers you like.

So those are just a few things you'll find in this new video page
experience. As with all things on the Web (and in life?), change is
hard and can take some time to get used to. That's why we did a lot of
research, talked with so many of you and incorporated your thoughts
into this latest back-to-basics playback page. So go on and "opt-in" to give it a whirl, and let us know what you think either in comments down below or enter feedback via this survey. Who knows -- you might see some of your own suggestions in future iterations of the page down the road.

To be blunt, this new rating system is stupid and downright annoying, which is saying something considering I only used it for two minutes before hastily reverting back to the old one.

Firstly, I don't know what made you think that it would be a good idea to make videos add themselves to our favourites when we "like" them. Very rarely do I add videos to my favourites, but I rate videos 4/5 stars all the time. It was no problem in the old system, it's a pain in the ass with this new one; I can't even begin to think of reasons why you'd want to create problems for your users.

Secondly, a binary rating system is much, much harder to read than an average of 5 stars. Which do you find easier to read:

"153 likes / 29 dislikes"or"4.5 stars"

Not to mention that since people focus more on negative feedback, positive feedback won't mean as much if those 29 dislikes are shown right next to it. Even if you stick with a binary rating system, and average score is a MUST.

Thirdly, you make a gross generalisation when you say 1 and 5 star ratings were the only ones ever used. It's simply not true... for me anyway.

PLEASE, I can't stress enough how stupid this new system is. I haven't even studied User Interfaces and I know this one is bad, so that's saying something. It's annoying, intrusive, confusing, hard to read, and simply dumb. The new layout is okay (it looks a little dull), but redesigning how rating works is a big mistake.

The new system is interesting, though I don't like it on a number of levels.

My biggest complaint is that the page is too white and has a lot less single-pixel line seperators between page elements in comparison with the old page. The old page uses much better dividing and shading of elements. There's just way too much white on the page.

While the rating system makes sense, I still like seeing an average score for quick-reference. The amount of likes versus dislikes as a scoring system just doesn't work as well as the stars.

I'm interested in stats as well, so I'm disappointed to see that there's no rating score or comment score anymroe.

I also don't like how the the description is squished under the video. The comments don't fully make up the space they're given, so that's bad too. The user information is also quite easy to miss as well.

I don't hate the new layout, it just needs to be improved. The layout, shading and element division should all be part of the improvements, as well as bringing the voting scores back.

For one the comment section should be wider so that the right side separating line can be near "next videos" list and so the comments take up the space given th them.

As for the ratings I can put up with the new one (even though I prefer the old one) but I don't like the idea of favouriting everything you like.

Theres afew glitches like when you open and close the "views box" the world map remains on the page but it is a beta so....

I'll close with my biggest gripe which is that to read the description you have to scroll down and stop watching the video when in the old format you could look at the description and video at the same time.

I really like the search and watch at the same time feature. I'm definitely going to rate videos a lot less now that it automatically favourites it once you like it. But that's no biggie. One issue I do agree with is that you have to scroll down to read the description. I think the old layout for that was better, which compromised nicely with the contents of the description and More Videos.

I have discovered a bug in the Beta page that seems to only effect Internet Explorer 8 users.The problem is that videos are loading twice simultaneously. I noticed that videos were loading slower in the Beta page, so I opened up my firewall to see what was going on. There I could clearly see that there were TWO seperate streams downloading at the same time - cutting my bandwidth in half. So I killed one of the streams to see what would happen. The video kept loading properly and started to load faster.I then went back to the "OLD YOUTUBE" and played the same video as a comparison - one stream only at full download speed shows.I did this same experiment in Google & Safari, and they appear not to be affected.When you intially pick a video to play in Beta using IE8, there is a very fast double flash/click of the screen - like the page is loading one on top of another.

I have made a video demonstrating this problem.Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRbJNh6cAro

If someone official from YT/Google actually reads my feedback for this, I would very much appreciate a small message been returned to me acknowledging that you are aware of this problem I have found.

The video responses seem lost for normal viewers. Is that true or I am the only one who can not see them. I mean, you can still submit a video response but seems only visible to the owner of the video. I liked the way it was where all viewers could see them :)

I really Dislike the New Layout, The only Thing I like is the Top where you Username, and the search bar are. If it is kept this way, I think we should still have the Rate system of 1,2,3,4,5 Stars. Thanks.

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